If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Don't be concerned others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Last year I sang for the Queen of England, met the president of the United States, and got an Emmy and a star on The Walk of Fame. And what did I do? I was just being myself.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.